1. Task description

The Debian Multimedia Maintainers team aims to make Debian a good platform for audio and multimedia work. This basically means packaging/maintaining multimedia applications and libraries, and collaborating with other maintainers or teams as well as upstream projects in order to improve audio/video support in Debian.

5. Realtime kernel

The Debian Multimedia team is not working on including a kernel image with the realtime-patches applied in Debian. Much of the realtime-patches have been accepted in the mainline kernel, to the point that for most purposes the stock Debian kernel is suitable even for realtime-like work.

Pengutronix has been working on realtime-patches for Linux kernel and now those patches are part of Debian official kernel, Debian Linux-RT kernel for the i386 and amd64 architectures is available from Debian main archive.

6. Backports

Any backports created by the team are uploaded to the official Debian backports service, please check the instructions to use them or contribute to them.

/MultimediaCodecs - information about codecs available for Debian and how to install them

8. Usual roles

Currently there are no strict roles defined. All members can work on all packages, although there is some sort of split. A list of people actively involved in the packaging effort can be found here

TODO document

9. History

The Debian Multimedia Maintainers team is the result of the merger of the Debian Multimedia team and the Debian Multimedia Packages team. There is still some duplicate infrastructure that should converge on a best-effort basis.